Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
20oct2005
Schreibmaschine schreiben nur mit zehn Fingern, armes Deutschland.
Pole Positions, congratulations to PragDave.
Microformats and Web 2.0 by Micah Dubinko, featuring a slap to OPML and mention of XOXO. :-)
Google finds NORAD phone numbers by Jonathan Wellons. Then, Google finds almost everything…
Why they’re talking about Internet governance by Andy Oram.
There is no terror in my heart
No dread of the unknown
Desire for paradise to be…
We love this on our own
— The Cure, Us Or Them
To work with Shiny New Things, work with Dusty Old Things by Dan Zambonini. I prefer to say I am a weaponry lobbyist than a biscuit designer…
The Life of independent Mac developers, outlined by John Gruber.
Made-up words in The Simpsons on Wikipedia.
Tumblelogs, Jason Kottke (!) discovers them and says: “I like the idea of tumblelogging a lot; I’ve been slowly moving kottke.org in a similar direction for awhile. Different ways of displaying various types of content…remaindered links, regular posts, book reviews, and movie reviews are all displayed differently.” A big thank-you! (and see the comments too, some are insightful.)
RADP: Ruby Asterisk Dial Plan, this program/library creates Asterisk dialplans from ruby code, by Hans Fugal. I told myself I’d write something along that should I ever make use of Asterisk.
Wer seinen Pass verliert schützt seine Privatsphäre, sagt der CCC und rät: lieber schnellstens noch einen Paß beantragen, ehe auf den Meldeämtern die erkennungsdienstliche Behandlung beginnt.
The French Scapegoat by shinshin. “On this day 224 years ago, the British General Lord Charles Cornwallis offered his sword in surrender to the French General Rochambeau and General Lafayette, ending the Battle of Yorktown, Virginia.”
C#: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow: An Interview with Anders Hejlsberg, discussion at LtU.
Two-factor Authentication and Phishing by Derek Vadala. “Two-factor authentication might be able to deter a few specific phishing schemes, but it will have almost zero effect on the long term problem.”
Broken cutters, broken saws,
Broken buckles, broken laws,
Broken bodies, broken bones,
Broken voices on broken phones.
Take a deep breath, feel like you’re chokin’,
Everything is broken.
— Bob Dylan, Everything Is Broken
Samy, Their Hero, an interview with the creator of the MySpace worm.
Common-lisp.net In Trouble, they are looking for (and have found?) a new administrator.
Bad Girls Hotel NSFW: “Is this erotic art, is it a social statement, is it just pornography? Probably none of those. More likely, it’s a documentation of the wilder side of New York City in the 21st century.” Too great to miss.